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The Effects Of Using Interactive Word Walls To Teach Vocabulary To Middle School Students, Ledale Southerland Jan 2011

The Effects Of Using Interactive Word Walls To Teach Vocabulary To Middle School Students, Ledale Southerland

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Teaching vocabulary to middle school students requires that educators find the most effective means of instruction to achieve this goal. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using an interactive word wall as the tool to combine five effective, research-based teaching strategies with social interaction to teach vocabulary to middle school students. In this study, 124 middle school students participated. The control group consisted of 67 eighth grade English students, and the intervention group was comprised of 57 seventh grade English students. The intervention was for a period of four weeks and included specific activities that …


A Study To Develop Supplemental Reading Materials For Use With The Junior High School American History Curriculum, Patricia Crosby Helwig Jan 1983

A Study To Develop Supplemental Reading Materials For Use With The Junior High School American History Curriculum, Patricia Crosby Helwig

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Through research into suggested sources a study was made to provide a collection of supplemental reading materials for use by teachers of American history at the junior high school level. These materials are intended to provide information, to promote individual achievement, to spark interests, and to be a motivation for independent reading.